About a year ago I posted a blog entry on the problem of spam and what measures we have available as individuals to take back our inbox from spammers. At the time I started using a service called SpamCop, and I’ve been fairly happy with it. For the price of about $30 per year, SpamCop.net [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Arresting Spam
Posted in Personal on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Creating ASP.Net Apps Under Projects
Posted in Technical on October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I like to keep all my stuff in one place. If I create a web app using Visual Studio, I want to keep it in my Projects directory, along with all my other code. If all you’re using is the development web server (aka the File System option) when creating web apps, you’re fine. But [...]
Tweaking Skype on Your Dev Machine
Posted in Technical on October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re like me, communicating with others via Skype is as essential to daily living as breathing. But when it comes to running Skype on your dev machine, you need to make a few adjustments. By default, Skype will grab ports 80 and 443, which are used by IIS. So if you need to work [...]
Customer Service? It Depends on Your Point of View
Posted in Personal on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As someone who regularly travels to different countries, I’ve taken notice of how various cultures view the concept of customer service. The age old phrase, “The customer is always right,” is something we’ve come to take for granted in America. And while we experience different levels of customer service in the States, we feel we [...]
